Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad (1993-) was a Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq.

Biography
Nadia Murad was born in Kocho, Sinjar, northern Iraq to a Yazidi family, and she lived on a farm with her family. In August 2014, the Islamic State attacked Kocho and massacred 600 people, including six of Nadia's brothers and stepbrothers, while they took Murad and other young women as slaves. She was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and raped by IS fighters while she was imprisoned in Mosul, and she was able to escape when her captor left the house door unlocked. Murad fled to the Duhok refugee camp and then to Germany, and she became an ambassador to the United Nations. In 2016, she was seconded for the Nobel Peace Prize, and she won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought alongside Lamiya Aji Bashar.